BenQ has added two new LED displays to its G Series line-up: a 16:10 shaped, 19 inch model (G920WL) and an 18.5inch, 16:9 shaped model, (the G922HDL).

BenQ claims the screens boast the lowest power consumption rating in their respective size categories, making them appeal to cost- and eco-conscious corporate users. The panels are 100% mercury-free, which is a significant ecological advantage over traditional displays. LED technology also enables the G-Series to use substantially less energy (approximately 60% less in G920WL and 43% in G922HDL) than traditional displays of the same screen size.

Both screens employ LED backlighting in order to enhance eye comfort while BenQ's patented Senseye3 Human Vision Technology claims to offer one-touch optimisation of image richness, clarity, and depth. Various preset modes are provided: Standard (office and Internet), Movie (DVD and TV), Game, Photo, sRGB (for 100% colour consistency across all sRGB devices), and Eco (for power-saving).

BenQ claims the 16:10 aspect ratio on the G920WL (1440x900 WXGA+ resolution) makes side-by-side viewing of office documents easy and comfortable while the 16:9 aspect ratio on the G922HDL (1366x768 WXGA resolution) is designed for HDTV and HD movies. Both models have D-Sub and DVI connections.

Available now the BenQ G920WL is priced at £99.00 whileThe BenQ G922HDL is £95.00.

Star billing at today's LG monitor launch went to the LGW86 series of LED backlit monitors. The high performance widescreen monitors will come in 22 and 24 inch versions, available for £249 and £299 respectively. They have a 2 millisecond response for the optimum gaming experience and 700:000:1 contrast ratio.

The monitors include smart controls, comprising functions such as auto brightness, which works out what the ambient lighting is in a room and adjusts the brightness control automatically. There's also a fun key that offers photo effects such as monochrome and sepia and EZ Zooming where you can home in on certain parts of the picture.

The monitors are available in October.

LG's visual department held a launch the UK today and paraded a pair of new LCD monitors, a new LCD 1080p LCD TV, an LCD projector and a new high-end LCD monitor.

Click on the gallery, which kicks off with the LG M62D LCD TV, to see the new products

LG, maker of many a quality display, has turned its attention to a range of "television monitors" called the M7WD series. These TV monitors are aimed at people that want to do multiple things with one display, including television, PC usage, high-def content and radio.

The M7WD range has a whopping contrast ratio of 20,000:1, and packs SCART, DVI and HDMI. It's also got stereo 3W speakers, though if you're serious about your home entertainment then you'll almost certainly want to replace these with external speakers. There's a 5ms response time, and 1920 x 1080 resolution, which is higher than most displays this size.

The displays are available in 19" and 22" sizes, cost about £200 and £160 respectively, and are in stores right now.

LG Electronics

It's 1.30 in the afternoon and already I'm getting dryballs. My contact lenses want to leap off my corneas, I feel like it's 3am in a smoky bar and I'm having to remind myself to blink as often as I can. LG reckons they've got an answer to this problem in the form of the LG WE5 eyestrain-minimizing monitor - the first of its kind the in the UK.

They come in a range of sizes between 18.5" to 27" (with all over 21" offering 1080p HD displays) and seem to have borrowed a version of the LG ambient light sensor technology we've seen in LG TVs.

The idea is that the screen auto-adjusts to ambient lighting to give you enough LCD backlighting to be able to see what you're doing without blinding you, but, just in case you don't get the idea, it'll actually remind you every once in a while that you probably ought to take a break from whatever it is you're doing. A tenner says that gets ignored and switched off in 95% of WE5s.

They all come in 16:9 size with a digital contrast ratio of 50,000:1 and are available from May.

LG

Oh dear. Today is a sad day. We have been amused and entertained by a marketing campaign :(

The marketing campaign in question is that of ComputerTan, a supposed online tanning system that uses the deadly rays output by your PC monitor to bring a healthy orange glow to your face while you work.

It is, of course, a joke - perpetrated by UK skin cancer charity Skcin and designed to raise awareness of how bad it is to pursue the bronze-god look. The Times says some 30,000 people visited ComputerTan in its first 24 hours online, although whether it was 30,000 innocent, orange-faced receptionists hoping for a free top-up or 30,000 cynical tech-bloggers looking for a story about the gullibility of the common man, isn't made clear.

Don't delve into the site too deeply. It's not all as glossy and amusing as the intro video. It soon gets serious about things.

(Via The Times)

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Many laptops these days are starting to arrive with HDMI ports and Blu-ray drives, so you can use your new laptop to hook up your massive 40" telly and enjoy HD content via your PC. Many people play PC games on massive monitors, too. But what do you do if you don't have a graphics card with a HDMI output?

You buy one of these. Plug one end into a spare USB port and the other into your TV, and voila - a 720p, or 1280 x 720, display. It'll take care of the sound too, via the HDMI cable. Best of all, you're not limited to just one of these - you can plug in as many as you have USB ports. Fancy rocking seven in a row? 8960 x 720 resolution!

Lancerlink (via Akihabaranews)

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I can't say I'm a huge advocate of touchscreens on desktop computers when a mouse and keyboard work perfectly well, just as quick, with a lot more fidelity and without smearing greasy digits and over-stretching my spine. I think I sound like the most boring person alive.

If, unlike me, you wish to say, "To hell with it, I want to fondle my new 24-inch Apple LED cinema screen," then now you may because the touchscreen conversion specialist, Touch Troll, are now doctoring that particular display too.

It'll cost you $1,399 plus whatever the hideous postage of the your old lump to Valencia, California, is or the slightly more reasonable option would be to buy it fresh from them for $2,299. Enjoy that one, and buy me lunch while you're at it.

Touch Troll (via Gizmo Watch)

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LG has gone and been a bit of a little genius today by successfuly devleoping the kind of tech that makes one stand up and applaud heartily - but jolly well politely - and say, "Bravo, yes, bravo!"

They've come up with a laptop screen that can be illuminated by sunlight instead of the usual backlighting that LCDs require. Now, the first alarm bell that peeled out in my head was, will you be able to see the thing in bright daylight anyway and apparently the answer is yes. It's got a contrast ratio of 9:1 rather than normal machines with 2 or 3:1.

So, you can use the thing indoors or at night as normal with backlighting and it'll switch to sunlight power when in bright light, and when it does, it uses a quarter of the energy meaning that your battery lasts a whole lot longer. Now that, my friend, is damn good tech. Hats offf to LG.

(picture via Akihabara News)

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Looks like MSI's been doing a bit of tech blog espionage again, revealing plans to launch a range of "all in one" PCs with a touch screen and Intel Atom combo that appears extremely similar to the one Asus showed off recently.

Three separate all-in-one MSI Neton models have been revealed - the M16, M19 and M22. I'll now give you a bit more information about all three, as you can't work much out about them from those boring model names.

They all run XP Home and have touch screens so you can get fingerprints over the bit you look at all the time. Touch screens on desktops are a terrible idea. The M16 is the smallest model, with its Intel Atom processor stuck into the case of a 15.6" 1366 x 768 monitor. The M19 features an 18.5" screen running at the same resolution, while the M22 if the "Full HD" option, giving you a 22" screen capable of displaying video at 1920 x 1080.

ViewSonic has announced its latest widescreen monitor, the VX2260wm. As the product name suggests, it's a 22-inch LCD but sports a 16:9 aspect ratio more common on "proper" TVs than on computer monitors.

Able to display full 1080p content without scaling via its HDMI or DVI-D inputs, it also offers 20,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio and a low 2ms response time which should cut down on motion blur.

Just when you think you've seen every luxury product, another one comes along. This time we've got luxury screen cleaning fluid, and it comes in what looks like perfume bottles. The manufacturers warn that using alcohol-based cleaning products can cause irreparable harm to LCD screens. They've formulated an alcohol-free, water-based cleaner that won't cause any damage to your expensive 42" plasma.

On the left, you've got the "Eazy Care", which comes in black or white, and costs £20. On the right is the "One Care", which costs £15. Refills are available for either for just £6. If either float your boat, then pick up a bottle at Currys or John Lewis.

AM Denmark Screen Cleaners

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LG has announced its latest 22-inch widescreen monitor for the UK market. The W2284F has won an iF Product Design Award, because apparently it's an outstanding example of design perfection.

Before we get to the specifications (which in my opinion is what really counts), let's dwell a little on LG's design ethos -- the soft blue power button beneath the screen was inspired by a drop of morning dew, while the rest of the monitor is glossy black -- inspired by a grand piano, perhaps?

I'm a big fan of multi-monitor setups. Although they look a little ridiculous, they really do enhance your productivity no end. At the moment, though, adding another monitor can be tough. Unless you've got a bad-ass graphics card, it usually requires the installation of a new one, then you've got to mess about with drivers, and OH it's all so complicated.

That's why MIMO's tiny little 7" monitors could be so handy. It's just about enough room to be useful, while not taking up a tonne of desk real-estate. They connect via USB, too, meaning that there's no horrible hardware fiddling. Great idea, and cheap at just £43, but at the moment, only available in Korea. Damn. If I see anything like this available to the UK market at a similar price, I'll be right on it.

Funshop Korea (via Technabob)

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Following the industry trend of switching from 16:10 displays to 16:9 ones, LG has just unveiled the W2261V. That's it up there. It's got a 2ms response time, 1920x1080 resolution, and a rather lovely design.

One interesting feature, though, is a 4:3 aspect ratio option, for when you're viewing stuff that refuses to come in 16:9. It means that it'll display a smaller picture, but at least it won't be horribly stretched.

No word on pricing or availability, but I'd wager "before Christmas" on the latter point. How attractive the monitor is will, at the end of the day, rest firmly on the cost, so when we hear, we'll make sure you know.

LG

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Apple wants you to treat your new MacBook, MacBook Pro or MacBook Air to a fantastic display, and so it's revamped its Cinema Display just for the new family of notebook computers.

The crystal clear 24-inch LED-backlit widescreen monitor has iSight camera and speakers built in, and comes with a three-in-one cable with a MagSafe power connector, Mini DisplayPort, and USB connection.

OLED development race winner Sony has announced its plans to start making OLEDs less than 1mm thick - that are flexible enough to be bent and wrapped around angles.

This'll come in handy for when you need to... bend a screen. Or, these thin, semi-transparent OLEDs could be piled on top of each other to make 3D displays, used as HUDs in the windscreens of expensive cars, or even used as a way for Sony to carry on charging us lots of money for new TVs that aren't particularly different from our existing TVs.

A video of the prototype display can be seen here. It is working and it is bending, although it clearly has a long way to go before appearing in Currys Digital in a choice of Piano Black or Albino White.

(Via ITP)

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LG has announced the latest in its line of widescreen LCD monitors. The W2271TC features a built-in webcam, microphone, and speakers, which means you needn't bother with lots of extra gadgetry on your desk.

Offering 20,000:1 contrast ratio, 5ms response time, 300 nits brightness, 1,680 x 1,050 resolution, and 170 degree viewing angle, the monitor comes supplied with software so that it be used for video recording and image capture and editing, and face tracking and zooming.

We know what you're thinking - WHY? So let's get that bit out of the way first. The Shuttle D10 is for awkward places. Small holes. Places where getting a PC and a whopping great 24" Samsung monitor in might be a bit of a squeeze. Caravans. The bedroom of a child.

It might also help calm your nerves a bit just to have a spare screen about the place for use in a broken primary screen emergency, or it could be good as a little media PC in the lounge. That's why. The boring paragraph about the technical specifications is after the "jump."

ViewSonic has announced its newest line of LCD monitors, the VX62 Series.

The 22-inch model offers a 20,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio and super clear panel, for much improved black levels and colour quality. It has a 1,680 x 1,050 native resolution (16:10 aspect ratio), 300 nits brightness, and a decent 2ms response time.

The 19-inch model offers a more modest 6,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio, other specs remain the same.